Torch



G P. SEAVEY 8; I. s. LAUBAGK.

(No Model.)

TORCH.

No. 365,706. Patented June 28, 18817.

UNITED STATES PATENT Orrrcnt GEORGE E. SEAVEY, OF BOSTON, AND ISAAC S. LAUBAOK, OF CAMBRIDGE, ASSIGNORS TO SEAVEY 8t OO., OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

TORCH SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 365,706, dated June 28,1887.

Application filed August 4, 1884. Serial No. 139,610.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, GEORGE F. SEAVEY, of Boston, county of Suffolk, State of Massachusetts, and ISAAC S. LAUBAOK, of Cambridge, county of Middlesex, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Torches,of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention relates to torches of that class wherein the lamp or body is secured to the end of a handle or pole by means of a hanger or curved bail fastened at its middle to a swivel attached to one end of the pole or handle, while its ends are attached to cars fastened to the lamp-body.

The improvements relate more particularly to the hanger or bail; and it has for its object to permit the lamp to be suspended from the ends of said hanger or bail, so that when the pole to which the hanger is secured is in vertical position the lamp-body will hang to one side of the center line of the pole.

The invention is more fully set forth in the following description, and is particularly pointed out in the claims.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a torch fixed on the end of a holder or pole and having my improvements embodied therein; Fig. 2, a detail view, partly in section, to more fully illustrate the construction of the swivel, Fig. 3, a front elevation of the hanger and swivel, and Fig. 4 a modification in which the ears are shown applied to a part of a bail.

The body A, of any usual shape, is provided with ears a, having slotted orifices to receive the flattened and bent ends of the hanger or bail B. In the present instance the central holcs'or orifices in the cars a have slots to leading therefrom, which receive the flattened extremities or ends 12 of the hanger or bail, the said flattened ends I) passing through the said slots until the rounded portions of the hanger or bail (composed of wire) reach the central holes or orifices in the ears, and thereafter change of position of the ears and fiattened ends of the bail with relation to each other sufficient to place the flattened ends of the hanger or bail out of line with the slots a (N0 model.)

causes the hanger or bail to maintain the engagement of its ends with the cars.

As shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the normal posi* tionof the hanger or bail and the body A and its attached cars is such that the flattened ends of the former are substantially at right angles with the slots in the ears, whereby the parts are securely held together; but, while. being detachable, they are prevented from be coming separated during ordinary use of the torch.

The tube 0 of the swivel is provided with a transverse opening of the shape of and larger than the body of the bail, as shown in Fig. 2, and this opening is slotted diametrically, as shown at c, to receive the flattened portion (1 of the hanger or bail B, the said slots being a little larger in area than the area of the flattened portion (1 of the hanger or bail, to thus permit the latter to tip a little, so as to enable the lamp or body A held thereby to be hung or suspended to oneside ofaline drawn through .the axis of the pole or handle 0, which will be secured in the cap or fcrruleD of the swivel, whereby when the handle or pole is moved or swung about the lamp will always be maintained in a vertical plane.

The underside or bottom of the tube or pivot c is flanged ate, or turned into the recessed bottom portion of the hollow body 6 of the swivel, so as to firmly retain the tube in the said body, while for smoothness and neatness of fit a washer, f, may be interposed between the top of the body 0 of the swivel and the bail B, as shown in the drawings.

To prevent the end of the handle or pole O inserted in the cap or ferrule D from being forced against the lower end of the tube or pivot c, and thereby interfere with its proper rotation, we have provided the under side of the body a with a head, which, by first coming against the pole, prevents the tube meeting the same. The upper end of the body of the swivel is flanged inwardly, as shown at 4, Fig. 2, to form a longer bearing for the tube or pivot c. i

The slotted ears described may be readily applied to pails, kettles, ,or other vessels, and the ends of the wire bail, flattened as shown and described, may be sprung into the slots of the said ears, the bail serving as a handle and being readily removable or detachable from the ears attached to the body of the pail or vessel.

We claim- 1. The combination, with a vessel or body, A, having ears a, and ahanger or bail provided with a flattened portion, d, of a connected swivel having a pin or pivot provided with a slot to receive the flattened portion of the said hanger or bail, and thereby support the bail, substantially as specified.

2. The combination, with the .flattened hanger or bail, of the swivel consisting of the scribed.

slotted pivot or tube, and the body recessed at I 5 its under side to receive the flanged end of the tube or pivot and provided with a bead to project downward belowthe end of the tube or pivot, substantially as and for the purpose de- 20 In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses GEORGE F. SEAVEY. ISAAC S. LAUBAOK. Witnesses:

G. W. GREGORY, B. J. NOYES. 

